Actually, you might be better off replacing the 502 ring first. More haste and so on.

I got the haste/crit ring from the shado pan assault.

Yes, I was thinking of that as well, but after thinking through, because of the Critical Strike, wouldn't be wasted stats? I mean, Dodge would at least be of a better stat than Critical Strike, wouldn't it? But then again, yes, the Haste is tempting... >.<"

Yea, I reasoned with myself on that as well. Haha! But somehow the current state of Grand Crusader is wavering me towards having that little bit more of Dodge and Parry instead of having that amount of Critical Strike... -_-"

And crap... I've been trying my luck on the ring from Blade Lord and none dropped, not even with coins... Shrugs... =(

I have a question of a more general plane.
Isn't reforging out of hit and expertise bad? They take more of the item budget for each point, don't they? So aren't we losing, by reforging expertise>haste, than for example parry>haste?

Seems like configuration 3 is a loss in all stats except Critical Strike, guess I'll be sticking to configuration 2. Hmm...

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Originally Posted by zloitima

I have a question of a more general plane.
Isn't reforging out of hit and expertise bad? They take more of the item budget for each point, don't they? So aren't we losing, by reforging expertise>haste, than for example parry>haste?

It shouldn't be a "loss" if you are able to reforge to perfect expertise and hit rating thus reducing the amount of "wasted" stats...

I have a question of a more general plane.
Isn't reforging out of hit and expertise bad? They take more of the item budget for each point, don't they? So aren't we losing, by reforging expertise>haste, than for example parry>haste?

That would require you having Parry, more of a waste in itself than the reforge would ever be :3
Also on a more serious note, in a lot of cases its just not possible to get a better gear set-up than the one that has 14% hit from gear or something ridiculous, very much the case if you have terrible RNG

I have a question of a more general plane.
Isn't reforging out of hit and expertise bad? They take more of the item budget for each point, don't they? So aren't we losing, by reforging expertise>haste, than for example parry>haste?

Can you clarify what you mean by this? Have a horrible feeling I may have misunderstood something about stat budgets on pieces.

Can you clarify what you mean by this? Have a horrible feeling I may have misunderstood something about stat budgets on pieces.

I think he's referring to the fact that getting 1% of hit or expertise takes more rating than getting 1% of haste or mastery. But overall, the total secondary stat budget is balanced based on item level. If a piece (like the random-stat bracers) has 900 of X stat, it will be 900 of haste, or expertise, or dodge depending on what it rolls.

At any rate, as others have said, you're far better off taking a Haste/Crit piece and reforging Crit-> Mastery/accuracy than taking a Dodge/Mastery piece and reforging Dodge -> Haste. You'll end up with more haste, and more accuracy at the cost of some dodge. Obviously, we have to work with what drops (I just couldn't pass up the 535 Dodge/Parry helmet ) so this isn't always an option, but for valor items you should DEF grab the "dps" ring over the "tank" one for tank purposes.

Crit is NOT useless, and is on par with D/P for "priority" in gearing (in a 10m N/HC setting at least). Crit won't add to survival (unless you count crit-WOGs) or mitigation, but will have a near linear increase on damage output, which indirectly reduces damage taken by shortening the fight. D/P add minimally to survival, but are subject to DR, and can/do yield primarily overheal in a stable situation. They CAN save the day with a lucky string of avoidance at low health, but you'd be just that: LUCKY. Don't rely on them. And the factor of their increase on DPS via GCAS proc's is about equal to the factor of Crit's value to survival via crit-WOG.

I suppose I should have clarified that the TL;DR list is from the standpoint of already being hit/exp capped. Good catch, will amend.

9.9 expertise, going strong!

Volun-told - A supposedly optional event, award, assignment, or activity in which a person (or persons) are required to attend either by persons-in-charge nominating them or their peers expecting them to be there. The individual often has no say in the matter, and non-attendance in frowned upon.I am so tired of seeing terrible people, being admired, for being terrible people.

Not much to comment really except way to much dodge/parry gear, try to get rid of some of those.
What I would do if it was my char, is

320 haste gem in boots
Change weapon enchant to windsong/dancing steel
Change shield enchant to mastery
Haste enchant on boots
Change that steadfast dodge trinket with a ghost iron dragonling.
Place a ticket to get the expertise trinket instead of the mastery/dodge one, praying that blizzard answers.

Volun-told - A supposedly optional event, award, assignment, or activity in which a person (or persons) are required to attend either by persons-in-charge nominating them or their peers expecting them to be there. The individual often has no say in the matter, and non-attendance in frowned upon.I am so tired of seeing terrible people, being admired, for being terrible people.

Windsong is not the expensive. Haven't checked price lately on ah, but used to be like 200g on my server.

Volun-told - A supposedly optional event, award, assignment, or activity in which a person (or persons) are required to attend either by persons-in-charge nominating them or their peers expecting them to be there. The individual often has no say in the matter, and non-attendance in frowned upon.I am so tired of seeing terrible people, being admired, for being terrible people.

Pretty much yes. Depends on the pieces though. You cant say Ret gear always > Prot gear. But in most cases, it will be, assuming it is the same item level. Though in some cases the prot gear will be better. Heck, in same cases the agility/intellect gear will be better.

Ret gear > other gear is fair assumption, because it is true most of the time, but not always.

Volun-told - A supposedly optional event, award, assignment, or activity in which a person (or persons) are required to attend either by persons-in-charge nominating them or their peers expecting them to be there. The individual often has no say in the matter, and non-attendance in frowned upon.I am so tired of seeing terrible people, being admired, for being terrible people.